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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. Douglas Adams

Service, Integrity, Money, You, Real

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams

Funny, Love, Fly, Sound, Deadlines, Like

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams

Learning, Yourself, Flying, Ground, Miss

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. - Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. Douglas Adams

Think, Go, Gone, I May Not, Up, Where

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. Douglas Adams

Woman, America, Face, You, Canada, Boy

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? Douglas Adams

Rain, Think, Fish, Nice, Judge, Who Am I

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams

Experience, Unique, Learn, Others, Human

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with. Douglas Adams

Man, Struggle, Win, Odds, Galaxy, Towel

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. Douglas Adams

Thursday, Never, Hang, Get, Must, Could

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. - Douglas Adams

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. Douglas Adams

End, Need, Always, Go, Up, Almost

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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Adams

Universe, Why, Will, Disappear, More

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. - Douglas Adams

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. Douglas Adams

Funny, Tax, Year, Dead, Reasons

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. Douglas Adams

Impossible, Difference, Wrong, Repair

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. - Douglas Adams

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. Douglas Adams

Mistake, Think, Problems, You, Potatoes

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. Douglas Adams

Problem, You, Own, Anything, Repeat

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Adams

Time, Illusion, Lunchtime, Doubly

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Adams

Job, People, Want, Capable, Fact, Rule

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams

Learning, Yourself, Flying, Ground, Miss

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. Douglas Adams

Hands, You, Try, See, First, Cat

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. Douglas Adams

Family, Bird, Small, Hands, Duck, Looks

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. Douglas Adams

Think, You, Forget, Test, Always, See

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive. Douglas Adams

Good, Book, Look, Place, You, Find

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. Douglas Adams

Involved, Here, Contradiction, Afterlife

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it. Douglas Adams

Weather, Farmer, Complaining, You, Fix

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. Douglas Adams

Truth, Me, Believe, Prove, Still

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? Douglas Adams

Beautiful, Gardening, Believe, Enough

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